kyngä

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Karelian

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Regional variants of kyngä
North Karelian
(Viena)
kynkä
South Karelian
(Tver)
kyngä

Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognates include Finnish kyynärä and Estonian küünar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkyŋɡæ/
  • Hyphenation: kyn‧gä

Noun

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kyngä (genitive kyngän, partitive kyngiä)

  1. (South Karelian) elbow

Declension

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Tver Karelian declension of kyngä (type 5/koira no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kyngä kyngät
genitive kyngän kyngin
partitive kyngiä kyngie
illative kyngäh kyngih
inessive kyngäššä kyngissä
elative kyngäštä kyngistä
adessive kyngällä kyngillä
ablative kyngäldä kyngildä
translative kyngäkši kyngiksi
essive kyngänä kynginä
comitative kyngänke kynginke
abessive kyngättä kyngittä
Possessive forms of kyngä
1st person kyngäni
2nd person kyngäš
3rd person kyngäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

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  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kyngä”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN